For your future, how much of your past matters?
 

It isn't like she killed or hurt anyone.

I've always believed that it is important to keep oneself in check because one never knows what future holds. It isn't about whether or not one is able to do something, but it's about moral judgements from others. I'd rather not have those moral judgements. It's these kinds of reasons why I've always kept private and a dual role in my indiscretions.

Parents, do you have any opinions on this matter?

That's what happens when parents find out that the people that take care of their kids are real humans. It's not like she's going to shove a kid up her twat to get off, jeez. Likewise, some parents forget everything when their kids get involved. The forget that they once smoked weed, that they used to fuck like bunnies on the roof and everywhere else they could think of, that they paid for sex once or twice, or that they flashed a cop after a wild party with a beer bong, and a family happened to be in the line of sight - with kids in tow.

If she was doing heavy drugs, hey I can see an issue. I don't really care even if they smoke a little green on the weekends or something. But to be upset because she was in a porn? Please.

I know a woman who worked in a strip bar because she couldnt get a job elsewhere in the town because she was "overqualified," so the gas station wouldnt take her. She didnt strip, she was a waitress, but if you work in a strip club, you are guilty. She eventually got a government job, requireing a security clearance, and one day, one of the higher up guys was walking down the hall, saw her and freaked out. He had purchased her underwear for $80 one night (it was almost closing, he offered, she figured why the hell not?). Niether of them said anything about it. Small world.

Ok, kids weren´t involved, but her past did come up, even if it didn´t hurt her. Much like luciferase said, people tend to forget they were once human, and people in positions of responibility are human. It shouldnt matter what someone did in thier past if thier past didnt include some kind of evil doings and harming others.

If some ex porn star was a teacher and a damn good one, and wasn´t showing the kids porn or any of that, then her past is her past, and shoulndt be taken into account.

I don't think it should matter even if she was still doing porn. What does that have to do with her ability to work with children. She doesn't bring that into this job. The kids would probably never have known, except for now they do that it has been drug out.

I used to work in porn. I own this site. I wonder if it hinders my ability to find a new job.

Yes, you're screwed you'll never find a decent job. Give it up now and start selling crack on the corner.

If he were a male pornstar it would be a non-issue. This is just the visceral reaction that some people have when they feel that women are not remaining pure for marriage. There's nothing for the boys; no purity balls and promise rings.. only "Integrity Balls" - teaching young boys that they shouldn't be 'soiling' young women because you shouldn't do that to another man's potential wife.

It's a huge extension of the Virgin/Slut dichotomy. Women are either pure virgins with no interest in sex, or they're sluts wantonly spreading their sex all over this country founded on family values. There's no middle ground where women can actually want and enjoy sex before marriage... oh heavens no!

The same people riled by an aide who used to be a porn star are probably engaging in all manner of impure activities with their spouses.. from doggy style to anal sex, from BDSM to golden showers. But that's A-OK because they're married, don'tcha see? If they turned their warped scale of 'purity' against the same things that they engage in their marriage, they'd be less qualified than her to teach their own children.

A lot of the teachers I used to work with not only knew about my former hobby, they'd seen my site. I think if the principal had seen it, I'd still be working there. :lol:
What people do in their personal lives is...well, personal. As long as it is nothing involving harm to kids, they should fuhgeddaboudit and worry about their OWN lives for a change.

This is akin to someone like me taking offense because a teacher to my kids is a Christian or something.

I disagree, especially if he did gay porn. I see this as a symptom of the child-rapist-lurking-around-every-corner mentality that is so prevalent today. Anything sexual that's even slightly outside of the mainstream becomes a red flag.

It wouldn't bother me at all.

Anyone else Google Crystal Gunns?

Isn't the lunchlady essentially in trouble for selling crack? :orly:

Spoiler: Well... pictures of hers anyway

woman's got 7 tits too many...

I did now!

From Wikipedia Crystal Gunns

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_DSC_0278.jpg

/me thinks those gunns ain't made out of crystal...

I have no problem with this sort of thing. I like to think that I can judge people on who they are.

I think some of the parents with "concerns" need to stop projecting their issues onto someone else.

I had to account for everything I did for the previous 7 years. So even though my thoughts are immoral, I live the lifestyle of one of those moral majority people...

I think you are going to see this happen a lot more often in the future.

This dirt-digging, media-obsessed world is insanely hypocritical.

Who cares what someone's done in their past!? The moral right needs to let go.

As far as I'm concerned the the "moral right" is neither moral nor right.

Point taken. Consider that to be amended to the "self-proclaimed moral right". ;)

Yup, my background went back ten years. It's one of those deals where I'm glad I had enough foresight to keep my private life private. At work, we constantly hear stories about stupid interns (trainees) who put their shit up on MySpace or Facebook and wonder why everybody laughs at them.

Good thing she wasn't aiming for a Fed job, but I say the parents should shut up about her. Let her past be her past.

I going to go out on a limb here and take the opposite stance. Because, I believe your past does matter when it comes to some jobs, such as security or police work, or dealing with huge amounts of cash, or working with children.

The vast majority of "real" humans are not professionally involved with porn nor ever have been.

Well, even if this higher up guy thought it was deviant behavior, a woman selling her used underwear to a total stranger, he couldn't very well rat this woman out, because he was the buyer.

BTW: I suspect this woman was not one of the strippers in that bar because she didn't have the qualifications for it, and not because of any scruples she might've had.
What? If the school worker had been a man, and he were a male pornstar, it probably would've been an even greater issue.

:no:

You sure are making a lot of uninformed and perhaps even naive assumptions, here.
Depends on what type of job you're applying for. But surely you already know that.
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They might not be moral or right, but they're certainly a force to be reckoned with. They always have been, in this country, and they probably always will be.